Word: impromptu
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...College curriculum? In this country the principle of trusting to chance is carried to an alarming extent. We seldom or never make much preparation for war until war is upon us, and then we find that not only are our military supplies deficient, but that nine tenths of our impromptu army are ignorant of even the simplest movements of the manual. If we could raise a force that knew something about handling its arms, the task of organizing and disciplining it would be far easier and quicker, and the time thus saved might make all the difference in the length...
...impromptu hunt occurred the other day through the open spaces of a well-filled lecture-room, in which the Professor, the Assistant-Professor, and a very large hound - supposed to have some "blood" in him - took prominent parts. The hound was finally captured and thrust into the adjoining-laboratory; he has not been seen since, and is supposed to be missing...
...Thanksgiving Jubilee, and the Courant and Record gladly fill their columns with the nonsense characteristic of the occasion. If an address on the "Ramifications of the Forensic Hyperbla," relying for its wit on poor spelling and lack of punctuation, be a sample of the performances, we cannot wonder that impromptu diversions in the way of bean and flour contests were acceptable to the audience. For a real "jolly wow" give us a Yale merrymaking...